Sophie Gwen Jenkins (née Evans) (born 13 February 1993) is a Welsh singer and actress, who played Glinda in the West End production of Wicked (2017), and Dorothy in the 2011 musical The Wizard of Oz. As a child, Evans performed with the Mid-Rhondda Operatic Society. After several television appearances in her teens, she achieved wider notice as the runner-up on the 2010 BBC talent show Over the Rainbow. Evans made her West End debut in March 2011 as the alternate Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of The Wizard of Oz. From February to September 2012, she played Dorothy full-time. Early and personal life Evans was born and raised in the Rhondda Valley. Her parents, David and Michelle Evans and her younger sister Beth, live in Tonypandy, where Evans attended Tonypandy Community College as a sixth-form student. She appeared in school plays and musicals, and featured in a Joshua Foundation Show at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Evans was also a member of the Mid-Rhondda Operatic Society from a young age to her early teens. She appeared on the 2008 series of ITV's The X Factor. Her other television appearances include The Big Performance (CBBC), The Big Talent Show (S4C) and a centenary documentary about the Tonypandy riots (BBC Wales). She has been dating Welsh rugby star Ellis Jenkins since they were teenagers. Sophie & Ellis got engaged in 2021. In June 2022, it was announced that Sophie is expecting her first child. On 25 June 2022, Sophie & Ellis got married Over the Rainbow Evans auditioned for Over the Rainbow, a reality show in which young actress/singers competed to play the role of Dorothy Gale in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2011 production of The Wizard of Oz. She advanced to the final along with Danielle Hope and Lauren Samuels. The final aired in two parts on 22 May 2010. Hope was the declared the winner and Evans the runner-up. Solo performances Aftermath Lloyd Webber elected to assist Evans, with the aid of casting director Bill Kenwright, to start her professional career, funding her continued training as a performer at a one-year musical theatre course at the Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, London. In autumn 2010, Lloyd Webber cast Evans as the "alternate" Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, to give Hope a rest on Tuesday evenings. In November 2010, WalesOnline named Evans as the 5th sexiest woman in Wales. Evans